[CF-Devel] Some points for discussion!

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Kevin C. Rudat wrote:
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      Apologies for writing this so late at night.
     
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      Tinkering mainly with the client, I've got some discussion
     
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       * Late November last year, it was said that should commands
     
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         like 'eat' for food or 'unwield' for weapons be made,
     
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         they should go in the client.
     
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         Unfortunately, the server has access to several different
     
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         sorts of names (base name, short name, custom_name) for items,
     
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         used in item_matched_string (arch.c line 212). 
     
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         The client only gets one or two 'cooked' strings.
     
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         Opinions?
     
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         (It's worse for 'turn' for levers; levers don't get a client_type.
     
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         Perhaps guess by face?)
     
     
  Well, client_type could perhaps get sent for those items.  I most concentrated 
on setting client type of objects that the player picks up, so that the 
inventory sorting can be done sensibly.

  There isn't any reason that client type can't get set up for objects that 
aren't picked up, but that the player otherwise manipulates.  Not many come to 
mind however.

  Not sure the usefulness of having specific commands to do certain things - I'm 
still likely to find 'apply' just more useful, but not that big an issue if 
other bits are added in.

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       * Installing from CVS, I had to copy the various bits and pieces
     
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         in lib (bmaps, faces, animations, formulae...) by hand after
     
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         doing make install. 
     
     
  This shouldn't be necessary - "it works for me" :)


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      krudat at kevin
      
      :~/fiddling/crossfire/crossfire/crossfire$ autoconf --version
     
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        autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
     
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        Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
     
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        Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     
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        This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
     
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        warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
     
     
  That looks reasonably up to date (I have 2.57)

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      krudat at kevin
      
      :~/fiddling/crossfire/crossfire/crossfire$ automake --version
     
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        automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6
     
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        Copyright (C) 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     
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        This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
     
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        warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
     
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        Written by Tom Tromey <
      
      tromey at redhat.com
      
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  that looks pretty old - I have version 1.6.3.  I'd personally suggest grabbing 
a later version and see if that works and fixes those automake complaints.

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